Monde.com (Facebook)

Mokhallad Rasem (november 2012)

In Monde.com (Facebook), Mokhallad Rasem takes people who have come from a variety of different places and experienced all kinds of journeys and brings them together around a cinematographic device. They only have a video cassette left of their own lives: childhood memories, periods of love or suffering, experiences of war or loneliness… A cultural chasm separates them, but Rasem removes these differences without ever lapsing into clichés. The people inhabiting Monde.com (Facebook) attempt to re-edit their lives. Can traumas be cut from their memory? Can memories be put back together again? To construct this collective show, Rasem links words, images, sound and movement. Monde.com (Facebook) is a deeply personal exploration of the sacrifices that need to be accepted if dreams are to become reality…